Showing 4 items matching "world war 1939-1945 - battleships"
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Monbulk RSL Sub BranchBook, Brassey's, Battleships of the U.S. Navy in World War II, 1977
... World War 1939-1945 - Battleships...-and-the-dandenong-ranges Battleships - History World War 1939-1945 ...This book details the most powerful weapon of all time - The US battleship of World War TwoIll, index, p.174.non-fictionThis book details the most powerful weapon of all time - The US battleship of World War Twobattleships - history, world war 1939-1945 - battleships -
Monbulk RSL Sub BranchBook, Pan Books, Hitlers high seas fleet, 1971
... -and-the-dandenong-ranges World War 1939-1945 - Naval operations - Germany ...A history of the Kriegsmarine in World War TwoIll, p.159.non-fictionA history of the Kriegsmarine in World War Twoworld war 1939-1945 - naval operations - germany, battleships - germany -
Monbulk RSL Sub BranchBook, Faber and Faber, The Bismarck Episode, 1958
The British Navy's sinking of a notorious symbol of Nazi Germany, the battleship Bismarck, in May 1941 ranks as one of the most significant victories of the Second World War. It was imperative that Britain find and destroy the Bismarck, a true threat to Britains ocean lifeline, before it could escape into the Atlantic. In The Bismarck Episode a veteran naval writer tells the intense and dramatic story of how the battleship was discovered, pursued, and ultimately destroyed.Index, ill, maps, p.219.non-fictionThe British Navy's sinking of a notorious symbol of Nazi Germany, the battleship Bismarck, in May 1941 ranks as one of the most significant victories of the Second World War. It was imperative that Britain find and destroy the Bismarck, a true threat to Britains ocean lifeline, before it could escape into the Atlantic. In The Bismarck Episode a veteran naval writer tells the intense and dramatic story of how the battleship was discovered, pursued, and ultimately destroyed. world war 1939-1945 - naval operations - britain, bismarck - battleship -
Monbulk RSL Sub BranchBook, Richard Hough, The hunting of Force Z : the brief, controversial life of the modern battleship, and its tragic close with the destruction of the 'Prince of Wales' and 'Repulse', 1963
This book is a terrific example of popular military history writing, telling in swift prose the story of the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse by the Japanese in December 1942, and providing both the longer term context in which Britain had developed its fleet of battleships and battlecruisers, and the shorter term strategic and tactical decisions which led to the fateful decision to dispatch Force Z to Singapore.Index, ill, maps, p.255.non-fictionThis book is a terrific example of popular military history writing, telling in swift prose the story of the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse by the Japanese in December 1942, and providing both the longer term context in which Britain had developed its fleet of battleships and battlecruisers, and the shorter term strategic and tactical decisions which led to the fateful decision to dispatch Force Z to Singapore. world war 1939-1945 - naval operations - britain, world war 1939 – 1945 – campaigns – malaya
